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Case study: How Zuora drives 60%+ of its growth by outbound, even when accounts need nurturing for years

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No joke, we’ve spoken to CEOs who want to make money on outbound prospecting in 90 days, but when asked how long their sales cycle is, they answer “four to six months.” Outbound marketing + outbound prospecting = account-based outbound. More often than not, revenue leaders are impatient for results now.

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3 Reasons to Normalize Your Data

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Ensuring multiple data sources are standardized as they join your database is important for critical go-to-market activities such as customer segmentation , territory planning , and prospecting. Applied across an entire sales team, this batch process leaves plenty of opportunities for variation in a number of important fields.

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Choose Activity Goals to Grow Sales

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But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory. Activity goals are goals that you typically come up with together with your sales manager targeting specific actions that you have a whole lot of control over.

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“Parasales” Reps – Sales eXchange 209

The Pipeline

Having a career path for people not only allows one to service client better with the right assets, but also allow the sales team to develop and succeed in adopting and executing the company’s sales process. A regular lament I get from managers is that the best presentation a rep had was the one they did for the job.

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Is A Sales Team Lead Role Worth Exploring?

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Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of nearly 10+ sales development reps. You have a strong solution to go along with a solid stream of both inbound and outbound activity, which prompted you to split the team by each channel to maximize meeting creation (and hopefully pipeline!).

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Is A Sales Team Lead Role Worth Exploring?

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Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of about 10 sales development reps. You have a strong solution to go along with a solid stream of both inbound and outbound activity, which prompted you to split the team by each channel to maximize meeting creation — and hopefully pipeline.

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The Pipeline ? Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead.

The Pipeline

If you don’t have your inbound web strategy in place, outbound sales will have to work harder to find prospects and nurture them. A solid inbound web strategy also includes nurturing, but if you don’t have marketing tools then outbound sales will have to manually nurture as well. Sales Leadership. Sales Management.